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Rh taken from him, and he was ordered to return home to meditate upon his crime. Arriving Home the middle of May, he became ill and died, early in July.

Ch'i Shao-nan left several important works in addition to the official compilations which he helped to edit. Most outstanding is the 水道提綱 Shui-tao t'i-kang, 28 chüan—a work on the watercourses of China and its dependencies, first printed in 1776 and several times thereafter. He gathered materials for it when he was connected with the above-mentioned Ta Ch'ing i-tung chih, and edited it after his retirement. He also edited, together with Wang Hang (see under ), the gazetteer, 温州府志 Wên-chou-fu chih, 36 chüan, printed in 1760. Another work attributed to him was a chronology of Chinese history, 歷代帝王年表 Li-tai ti-wang nien-piao, 13 chüan, which was reprinted and supplemented by Juan Fu (see under ) in 1824. W. F. Mayers' The Chinese Reader's Manual (p. xiv) states that "Upon it, and the [Li-tai] Chi-yüan pien of ... the dynastic tables given in Part III [of Mayers' Manual] are based." The original edition, probably in 4 chüan, was printed by Ch'i's disciple, Tai Tien-ssŭ 戴殿泗, who also sponsored the printing of the above-mentioned Shui-tao t'i-kang, and Ch'i's collected poems, 寶綸堂詩鈔 Pao-lun t'ang shih-ch'ao, 6 chüan (1808). In 1797 the printing of Ch'i's collected prose works, Pao-lun t'ang wên-ch'ao (文鈔), 8 chüan, was sponsored by Ch'in Ying (see under ). Another literary collection, entitled Pao-lun t'ang chi-ku lu (集古錄) or wai-chi (外集), 12 chüan, was printed in 1888. In 1767, just before he was arrested, Ch'i edited a condensed gazetteer of the famous mountains in his native district, entitled 天台山方外志要 T'ien-t'ai-shan fang-wai chih yao, 10 chüan, of which an original edition is preserved in the Library of Congress.

[1/311/6a; 2/71/55b; 3/82/7a; 4/32/4b; 20/2/00 (portrait);, Kung-chü chêng-shih lu p. 61a; for date of birth; 台州府志 T'ai-chou-fu chih (1926) 73/12a; T'ai-chou-fu chih (1936) 103/16b; Portrait in 青鶴 Ch'ing-ho, vol. V, no. 1 (July 1, 1934); Pao-lun t'ang wên-ch'ao in 芋園叢書 Yü-yüan ts'ung-shu (1935); see bibl. under ]

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 CH'I-ying (Kiying) 耆英, d. 1858, June 29, official and diplomat, member of the Manchu Plain Blue Banner, was an imperial clansman. He was probably descended from Murhaci, a brother of the founder of the Ch'ing Dynasty (see under ). His grandfather, Ping-wên 炳文 (1730–1812), a censor during the middle of the Ch'ien-lung period, was exiled to Ili for offending the emperor in a memorial. Ch'i-ying's father, Lu-k'ang 祿康 (d. January, 1816), was first secretary in the Imperial Clan Court and later served as Grand Secretary (1804-11) and as commandant of the Peking Gendarmerie (1802-06, 1809-11). He was degraded in 1811 when he was accused of failing to prohibit gambling among the servants of high officials and those in his own home. In 1813, while serving as lieutenant-general of the Plain Yellow Banner, several soldiers under his charge joined the rebels who attacked the palaces in Peking (see under ). He was then sent to Mukden as an exile among the imperial clansmen (see under ) and died there.

Ch'i-ying, like his father, began his career in the Imperial Clan Court where he served successively as a supernumerary secretary (1806–08), as registrar (1808–13), as assistant administrator (1813), and as administrator (1813–19). In the meantime he served for a year (1815–16) as superintendent of customs at Shanhaikuan. In 1819 he was promoted to be a reader, and in 1820 a sub-chancellor of the Grand Secretariat. After Emperor Hsüan-tsung ascended the throne (1820), he gave Ch'i-ying the concurrent post of superintendent of the Summer Palace (Yüan-ming Yüan). From 1823 to 1836 Ch'i-ying held the following posts: junior vice-president of the Court of Colonial Affairs (1823), of the Board of War (1823–24), of the Board of Works (1825–26), and of the Board of Revenue (1826–29); senior vice-president of the Board of War (1824–25); president of the Board of Ceremonies (1829–34), of the Board of Works (1834), of the Board of Revenue (1834–36), and of the Board of Civil Appointments (1836). In the meantime he held many concurrent posts, such as minister of the Imperial Household, commandant of the Peking Gendarmerie (1827–37) and lieutenant-general of various banners. In 1836 he was sent to investigate certain corrupt officials in Kiangsi and to conduct a trial in Canton.

Soon after leaving Peking, however, he was accused of illegally releasing a eunuch charged with gambling. For this he was punished in November 1836 by being deprived of his high 130